A Dangerous Meeting

In the Shadows with Mercyful Fate

Martin Popoff

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Wymer Publishing
18 July 2025

Heavy Metal music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

Song-by-song, album-per-chapter book looking at the exemplary catalogue of King Diamond’s devilish original band, from Melissa and Don’t Break the Oath in the eighties to a vastly under-rated run of top-shelf reunion records in the nineties.

The King Diamond catalogue gets a more informal look-in along the way, but most of this is about the hard, spooky work that went into one of the classiest metal catalogues of all time.

By: Martin Popoff
Imprint: Wymer Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781915246851
ISBN 10: 1915246857
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 18 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

At approximately 7900 (with over 7000 appearing in his books), Martin has unofficially written more record reviews than anybody in the history of music writing across all genres. Additionally, Martin has penned 75 books on hard rock, heavy metal, classic rock and record collecting. He was Editor in Chief of the now retired Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, Canada’s foremost heavy metal publication in print for fourteen years, and has also contributed to Revolver, Guitar World, Goldmine, Record Collector, bravewords.com, lollipop.com and hardradio.com. Martin has been a regular contractor to Banger Films, having worked on the award-winning documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, the eleven-episode Metal Evolution, and the ten-episode Rock Icons, both for VH1 Classic. Martin currently resides in Toronto and can be reached through martinp@inforamp.net or martinpopoff.com.

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